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One Justice League book gave readers a unique spin on the classic team and its high time DC Comics brought them back. The Justice League of China debuted in the DC "Rebirth" era title, New Super-Man, and gave fans a brand-new hero team based out of Shanghai.

The "Rebirth" initiative pumped new life into DC Comics by giving fans exciting new stories, one of which focused on a young man who got the opportunity of a lifetime after gaining Superman's powers. But New Super-Man was more than just 'DC heroes set in China'. It was a gripping story of heroism that deserves a second chance at life.

New Super-Man Was a Powerful Story about Personal Growth The Justice League of China Became a Worthy Expansion of the Team

New Super-Man was created by Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic, and largely centered around a young man named Kong Kenan, a...

When it comes to scripted TV shows, Syfy has had both hits and flops. Which of the current series will be cancelled or renewed for another season?

Syfy execs consider a lot of data when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series, but ratings are a major factor.

Scripted Syfy Network shows listed: 12 Monkeys, Aftermath, The Ark, Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Bitten, Blood Drive, Channel Zero, Childhood's End, Chucky, Continuum, Dark Matter, Day of the Dead, Deadly Class, Defiance, Dominion, The Expanse, Ghost Wars, Happy!, Haven, Helix, Hunters, Incorporated, Killjoys, Krypton, Lost Girl, The Magicians, Nightflyers, Olympus, Reginald the Vampire, Resident Alien, Superstition, SurrealEstate, Vagrant Queen, Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and Z Nation.

Last updated: Most recent ratings added for The Ark.Read More…...

Is Sean Teale married? The handsome actor has fans curious.

You may know him from shows like Reign, The Gifted, Skins, and Incorporated.

His latest project is Doctor Odyssey. He’s part of the main cast — playing part of a small, dedicated medical team on a luxury cruise ship.

The show promises to be saucy, but what about his real love life?

Sean Teale attends the premiere for ABC’s ‘Doctor Odyssey’ at Bel-Air Bay Club on September 18, 2024. (Photo Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) Who is Sean Teale?

Sean Teale is a British actor. He was born in 1992, making him 32 at the time of Doctor Odyssey‘s premiere on ABC on September 26, 2024.

Before The CW’s tragic downfall, he portrayed Prince Conde on Reign. He played Nick Levan on Skins, protagonist Ben Larson on Incorporated, and Marcos Diaz (Eclipse) on The Gifted.

Teale is of Venezuelan, Spanish, and Welsh descent.

The biggest, glossiest album of Bruce Springsteen’s career, 1984’s Born in the U.S.A., has a shadowy, equally classic twin — the low-fi, solo-acoustic Nebraska, released two years earlier. The albums are inextricably linked, beginning with the fact that multiple Born in the U.S.A. tracks — the title song, “Downbound Train,” “Working on the Highway” (via an earlier song called “Child Bride”), and the B side “Pink Cadillac” — were originally part of the acoustic demo sessions that ultimately became Nebraska. The first sessions for Born in the U.

Sean Teale has been cast as a series regular in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming ABC series “Dr. Odyssey,” Variety has learned.

Teale will star in the series alongside previously announced lead Joshua Jackson as well as fellow cast members Don Johnson and Phillipa Soo. Plot and character details for the show are being kept under wraps, but sources say the series is a medical procedural set on a cruise ship. It is slated to premiere during the 2024-2025 broadcast season.

Teale first broke out as a cast member in the popular UK series “Skins,” holding a main role in the series during its fifth and sixth seasons. He went on to star in shows like “Mr. Selfridge” and “Reign.” His other recent credits include leading the Syfy series “Incorporated” as well as starring in shows like “The Gifted” at Fox, “Little Voice” at Apple TV+, and “Who Is Erin Carter?” at Netflix.

The cast of Villains Incorporated includes a mix of established and younger comedic performers, earning critical appraisals. The film follows three henchmen on a mission for destiny, blending fun and dark elements in a silly setting. Up-and-coming comedians shine in the movie alongside established performers in this goofy superhero parody film.

The cast of Villains Incorporated is a mix of established comedic performers and younger sketch performers. The indie comedy was directed and co-written by Jeremy Warner. Independently produced by members of Jk! Studios alongside star Colin Mochrie, Villains Incorporated has earned critical appraisals at film festivals, including the Austin Film Festival. The film follows three down-on-their-lunch minions in a world controlled by superheroes and supervillains.

Tired of their lot in life, Beatrix leads her friends/fellow henchmen Harold and Cain on a mission to take destiny into their own hands. The indie comedy is a fun and goofy superhero...

Through the power of cinema, audiences have long been treated to some of the best stories in fiction, through a diverse range of genres each dedicated to their tropes and themes. These movies follow a traditional structure of beginning, middle, and end, with each part playing a key role in determining how the story is perceived by audiences. For most stories, the opening sequence can be the make or break for how invested audiences get in the story.

The opening scene of any movie is vital in capturing the interest of audiences and establishing the tone of the story. After all, it is here where audiences get their main impression of the story and, quite often, its characters. These scenes should serve to explain what type of story is about to play out without giving away too much. For a scene to do a good job at setting up its...

"I Woke Up a Vampire" combines coming-of-age drama with the supernatural, following the struggles of a half-human, half-supernatural character. The show's entertaining and colorful characters, portrayed by a talented young cast, inject energy and excitement into every scene. Kaileen Angelic Chang, Niko Ceci, and Zebastin Borjeau deliver impressive performances as the main characters, bringing life to the show's supernatural and human characters.

In its 16-episode runtime, Netflix's I Woke Up a Vampire features several well-written and entertaining characters portrayed by a young roster of talented cast members. Combining coming-of-age drama with the supernatural, I Woke Up a Vampire joins the list of television shows like Teen Wolf and Wolf Pack that navigate the struggles of a half-human, half-supernatural character. Although I Woke Up a Vampire follows the well-worn conventions of the vampire sub-genre, it proves to be an entertaining series because of its light-hearted comedy and family-friendly drama.

The...

It’s a well-known fact that Alan Moore isn’t the biggest fan of superheroes these days, yet there was a time when the legendary scribe seemed willing to return to Marvel Comics for one character in particular: none other than the Astonishing Ant-Man.

As recently revealed in his Substack newsletter Man With A Hat, Marvel Editor Tom Brevoort detailed how Alan Moore almost came back to Marvel Comics in the early 2000s. Moore began working with Brevoort following his contribution to the Heroes graphic novel, a landmark project created for charity in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Not long after, Brevoort attempted to lure Moore into doing more work for Marvel Comics. Says Brevoort: “I did later make an attempt to convince Alan to write Fantastic Four, unsuccessfully—he did have an interest in doing Ant-man, though I was never quite certain whether we could sell it in sufficient...

Warning: contains spoilers for Batman Incorporated #8!In an unexpected move, Red Hood’s father has returned to DC lore - as a superhero! In the pages of Batman Incorporated, Ghost Maker has reunited Batman, Inc, gathering together a group of Bat-themed heroes from across the globe - including the mysterious Wingman. Fans have speculated for months as to Wingman’s identity, and in issue eight it stands revealed as Willis Todd, the father of Red Hood - but what will this mean for Jason Todd?

The issue, part one of the 'Joker Incorporated' arc, is written by Ed Brisson, drawn by John Timms, colored by Rex Lokus and lettered by Clayton Cowles. At one of Batman Incorporated’s safe houses in Melbourne, Australia, Wingman and Dark Ranger wait out a suspension, spending their time working on equipment - or in Wingman’s case, drinking beer. As the two chat,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Batman Incorporated #8In order to combat Batman Inc., the Joker is forming his own international squadron of Jokers and just revealed his first members. Audiences already caught a glimpse of what Joker Inc. could be capable of in Batman Incorporated #7. It was in the issue's final pages that readers met Ol' Dusty Bronco, who makes an immediate impact by shooting Red Raven's father, William Great Eagle, in the chest.

Now, Batman Incorporated #8 by Ed Brisson and John Timms sees the aftermath of Mr. Eagle's shooting, putting Chief Man-of-Bats in a coma on the brink of death on a hospital bed. Afterward, Nightrunner meets Charles De Ghoul, the Joker of France, and his Cirque De La Mort overwhelm the Batman of France. Later, El Gaucho and Ghost-Maker run into the original Joker who, after explaining his motivations, unveils a giant spinning wheel with the names of everyone...

Freddie Prinze Jr. isn’t eager to return to the “Scooby-Doo” franchise.

In a recent interview with TooFab, the 47-year-old actor was quick to turn down the prospect of reuniting with his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini for a third film playing Mystery Incorporated.

“It wouldn’t be something I would do,” Prinze said. “I have zero interest. I mean, it was tricky. It wouldn’t be for me, man.”

The actor clarified that his thoughts on the matter come down to the studio, rather than the project itself. The first “Scooby-Doo” (2002) and its 2004 sequel, “Monsters Unleashed,” were both distributed by Warner Bros.

“There was just so much bait and switch on the first one,” Prinze continued. “The studio was not honest with me in any way, shape, or form… It wasn’t the best. I think I’ve been on two jobs...

Exclusive: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke attached as writer/showrunner.

Young is the pseudonym of bestselling historical novelist, Robyn Young, and The Fields is her crime thriller debut.

Per the book’s description: The Fields starts with a body – a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend,...

The first-ever Scooby-Doo preschool series is headed to HBO Max and Cartoon Network. CGI-animated adventure comedy series Scooby-Doo! And the Mystery Pups will join the Cartoonito preschool block in 2024.

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Scooby-Doo! And the Mystery Pups finds the iconic best pals as camp counselors who lead a “paw”-some new crew on mystery-solving adventures at sleepaway camp.

Per the official logline: As counselors in a lakeside sleepaway camp, Scooby and Shaggy don’t know much about canoes and archery, but they do know how to solve a mystery! In a summer filled with nature hikes, rafting trips and fireside ghost stories, the goofy, good-hearted and can-do duo will share their love for chasing clues with three young camper pups destined to become their own preschool version of Mystery Incorporated.

Scooby-Doo vets Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard will lead the voice cast, playing Scooby and Shaggy respectively. Mark Palmer serves as co-executive producer and showrunner with Erik Knutsen as supervising producer. Sam Register, president, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, also serves as executive producer.

The show will encourage the audience to solve clues alongside the collaborative trio of pups, exemplifying how much can be accomplished with friends by your side. The curiosity and teamwork skillsets align with Cartoonito’s Humancentric Learning Framework, a philosophy that helps children develop their unique potential, by inspiring preschoolers to greet every mystery they encounter with wonder, confidence, and cooperation.

“This show combines everything we love about Scooby—his humor, his loyal friendship with Shaggy, his mystery-loving spirit—all in an innovative and accessible format for preschoolers,” said Amy Friedman, head of kids & family programming, Warner Bros. “Cartoonito parents and caregivers will get to introduce kids to their beloved childhood hero in a totally new way.”

“We are thrilled to finally give preschoolers a version of Scooby to call their own,” added Register. “With plenty of laughs, fun, and clues to chase, this show promises to entertain the youngest of mystery solvers.”...

July is the month that North America goes back to the movies in earnest. There have already been some theatrical release of note this summer, but as everyone knows the blockbuster movie season doesn’t get started until a Marvel movie premieres. Thankfully, with its list of new releases for July 2021, Disney+ is offering up some options for those who prefer to stay home.

In addition to arriving in theaters on July 9, Black Widow will premiere on Disney+ as well. Disney+ subscribers can purchase the first Marvel movie released since 2019 for $29.99. Judging by the early buzz, that “Premier Access” price may be worth it. Disney+ is keeping the original summer movie parade going in July with The Rock’s latest action film, Jungle Cruise, premiering on July 30.

Read more Movies Summer Movie Preview: From Black Widow to The Suicide Squad and Beyond By Rosie Fletcher and 3 others Movies How Black Widow...

Jahmil French, the Canadian actor best known for his regular role as Dave Turner in Degrassi: The Next Generation, has sadly passed away. A cause of death has not yet been revealed, but the young actor reportedly died on Monday at the age of 29. His passing was confirmed by his representative, Gabrielle Kachman, in a statement provided to Deadline.

"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of a dear friend and client Jahmil French," Kachman said. "He will be remembered by many for his passion for the arts, his commitment to his craft, and his vibrant personality. I ask that you keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time."

French played Dave Turner on Degrassi: The Next Generation as part of the main cast between 2009 and 2013. For the role, he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in...

Jahmil French, known for his role as Dave Turner in the hit Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation, has died, his representative Gabrielle Kachman confirmed to Deadline. He was 29.

“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of a dear friend and client Jahmil French,” Kachman said in a statement. “He will be remembered by many for his passion for the arts, his commitment to his craft, and his vibrant personality. I ask that you keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.”

A cause of death was not revealed.

Soundtrack creator Joshua Safran first shared the news of French’s passing on Twitter.

“I can confirm my good friend, co-worker, and all around inspiration, Jahmil French, passed away yesterday,” Safran wrote. “Only posting because I see the story getting out there. I will have more to say about him later.

When it comes to scripted TV shows, Syfy has had both hits and flops. Which of the current series will be cancelled or renewed for another season?

There's lots of data that Syfy execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are the major ingredient.

Scripted Syfy Network shows listed: 12 Monkeys, Aftermath, Bitten, Blood Drive, Channel Zero, Childhood's End, Continuum, Dark Matter, Deadly Class, Defiance, Dominion, The Expanse, Ghost Wars, Happy!, Haven, Helix, Hunters, Incorporated, Killjoys, Krypton, Lost Girl, The Magicians, Nightflyers, Olympus, Superstition, Vagrant Queen, Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and Z Nation.

Last updated: Most recent ratings added for Resident Alien.Read More…...

This Killing Eve article contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale.

We don’t chiefly watch Killing Eve for the plot, but that doesn’t mean we’re not dying to find out exactly what the deal is with The Twelve, the mysterious organization that has sent Villanelle and other assassins around the world to commit a series of precision (or sometimes not) murders. With their hands in politics and commercial forces around the world, The Twelve’s influence is broad and terrifying. At this point, it’s unclear how much control they actually have, though we know that people who get in their way usually end up dead.

Season 3 has arguably made the most progress yet on uncovering the mystery of what exactly The Twelve is and who is involved. Here’s what we know so far…

Who Are The Twelve?

Ostensibly, The Twelve (also known as Dozen Incorporated) are...

Scoob! is now available to rent or buy on digital, and fans and families everywhere are tucking into the animated movie, which is actually the first big-budget Scooby-Doo film in 16 years. However, it’s not something that everyone’s celebrating, as many Mystery Incorporated lovers are furious at Warner Bros. for replacing the regular voice acting cast.

Will Forte (Shaggy), Zac Efron (Fred), Amanda Seyfried (Daphne) and Gina Rodriguez (Velma) play the characters in Scoob!, with only franchise veteran Frank Welker returning as Scooby from the regular actors who portray the gang in the animated TV series and direct-to-dvd movies.

For Shaggy star Matthew Lillard, in particular, it was pretty crushing not to be asked back for this production. In a Zoom interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Ash Crossan, the actor opened up on his disappointment about being replaced, and you can see what he had to say below:

Matthew...

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? That’s what fans of the beloved mutt have been asking for years now, as it’s been quite a while since Mystery Inc. were last seen in theaters. But now Scooby, Shaggy and the gang are set to return in Scoob!, an animated reboot of the property that’s going to feature characters from other classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons as well.

Originally, it was supposed to be on the big screen next month, with a May 15th release date pegged in. But due to the current pandemic, which has forced most theaters to shut their doors, Warner Bros. has announced that it’ll be skipping cinemas and going straight to digital.

That’s right, on the same day it was going to hit theaters – May 15th – Scoob! will be available to watch from the comfort of your own home. According to Deadline, it’ll “be available...

When animated reboot Scoob! reaches theaters, it will be the first time in about 16 years that Mystery Incorporated have made the jump to the big screen. The first two times were the duo of live-action Scooby-Doo movies that released in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Scooby fans who grew up with the films remember them very fondly, in no small part due to the script from future Guardians of the Galaxy helmer James Gunn.

Unfortunately, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed didn’t earn enough at the box office to get a third installment greenlit. But if it had, Gunn would have been the one to direct it, taking over from Raja Gosnell, who did the first two. The filmmaker revealed this news during an Instagram Q&a over the weekend. When asked why Scooby-Doo 3 never happened, Gunn explained:

“I made a deal to write and direct #3 back in 2004 but the second one, although it did well,...

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home is building out its cast. Allison Miller will join her A Million Little Things co-star James Roday, along with Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World) and Richard Schiff (The West Wing) in the movie set to air later this year on Peacock, NBCU’s upcoming streaming service.

The film, which is named after Tim Omundson’s Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter, will explore the marriage between Shawn, played by Roday, and Maggie Lawson’s Juliet after the pair’s nupitals at the end of the first movie.

Written, directed and executive produced by Psych creator Steve Franks, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home focuses on Lassiter, who is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Dulé Hill’s Gus return to Lassie’s side...

For decades, fans of all ages have consumed Scooby-Doo in its various forms of media: from direct-to-video films, television series, live-action theatrical films, and a theatrical animated film that will be released later this year.

Related: Scooby-Doo: The 10 Scariest Monsters, Ranked

There's a lot to love about Scooby-Doo: it has its own charm, and in certain cases it's not afraid to subvert its own popular tropes. But by far, the things we tend to love most are its characters: from the always hungry Shaggy to danger prone Daphne, there's a character for everyone.

Today, we'll be focusing on the two women of Mystery Incorporated: Daphne and Velma. These two young ladies couldn't be more different from each other, but they've proven many times over the years their friendship is unbreakable. From Daphne's fashion sense to Velma's logic, we're breaking down five reasons we love Daphne and five more why we love Velma.

The search for Quentin Tarantino’s Charles Manson is over. The Wrap confirms the director has cast Australian actor Damon Herriman as the infamous serial killer in his ninth feature, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The casting news arrives as Tarantino is already well into production on the 1969-set movie, which is shaping up to be his penultimate effort if he sticks to his plan to retire after ten movies.

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a television actor trying to break into the film industry alongside his friends and stuntman, played by Brad Pitt. The characters live next door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, played by Margot Robbie and Rafal Zawierucha. Tate and four others were murdered by members of the Manson Family cult on August 9, 1969.

Herriman is best known in the U.S. for playing Dewey Crowe on five seasons of the FX series “Justified.

Paramount Pictures is teaming up with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon through their Pearl Street Films production company to produce The Shadows, based on a true story set in their hometown of Boston. There is no indication that either actor will star in the film, and it seems they will both just be producing at this time. This news comes just days after Ben Affleck was accused of sexual misconduct, for groping actress Hilarie Burton while she was hosting MTV's Trl back in 2004. The actor later apologized for his actions.

The project comes from writer Chris Bremner, who took his pitch to Paramount, which the studio acquired, and now he will be writing the script. The story will be based on Matthew Pearl's Boston Globe Magazine article "Into the Shadows," which chronicles America's first ever undercover police officers, who were based in Affleck and Damon's hometown of Boston. Ben Affleck...

Seven new actors are enrolling in Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why.

The buzzy high school drama has added seven cast members ahead of the upcoming Season 2, according to a report from Buzzfeed, all playing new characters who weren’t in the original Jay Asher novel. The cast additions are led by Tony-winning Broadway veteran Kelli O’Hara (Masters of Sex), who’ll play Jackie, an “advocate for victims of bullying.”

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The six other cast additions:

* Ben Lawson (Doubt) as Rick, Liberty High’s baseball coach.

* Anne Winters (Tyrant) as new head cheerleader Chloe.

* Bryce Cass...

Exclusive: Pearl Street Films exec Margaret Chernin has been named VP Development at Color Force, the film and TV production company run by Nina Jacboson and Brad Simpson. She already is aboard and will oversee the company’s film productions and development. As Svp Development at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street, Chernin developed and co-produced Syfy’s Incorporated and helped develop pics including The Trade, Blood and Treasure and Paul the Apostle, all set up…...

Incorporated alumna Allison Miller is set as the female lead in Salamander, ABC’s drama pilot based on a Belgian format, from writer-producers Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg (CBS' Zoo). Written by Appelbaum, Nemec, Pinkner and Rosenberg and directed by Gary Fleder, Salamander centers on a brilliant but misanthropic engineer who recruits a skeptical Homeland Security agent to help him track a mysterious bank robber whose theft of 66 specific…...

Person of Interest and Angel alum Amy Acker is set to play opposite True Blood‘s Stephen Moyer in Fox’s as-yet-untitled Marvel drama pilot.

RelatedPilot Season: Scoop on Fall’s (Possible) New Shows, Who’s In Them

Penned by Matt Nix (Burn Notice), the projects focuses on two ordinary parents (played by Acker and Moyer) who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

Per THR.com, Acker’s character, Kate Stewart, is in the midst...

Following the news that both Jamie Chung and Stephen Moyer have signed on to lead the cast of Fox’s new X-Men family drama, Deadline is now reporting that Sean Teale (Skins, Reign, Incorporated) has also joined the growing ensemble as a mutant character named Marcos Diaz, Aka Eclipse.

Whereas the previous child of the atom to be added to the cast (Chung’s Blink) is an established Marvel Comics hero, this guy has been created just for the show and is described as “a natural rebel compelled by circumstances to cooperate with others. He’s a passionate and strong-willed fighter who sometimes lets his emotions overrule reason.” Eclipse’s powers include the ability to absorb and manipulate photons, which actually sounds quite similar to Roberto Da Costa/Sunspot’s gift. It’s not likely that he’ll turn out to be that character, however, as Sunspot is expected to...

Marvel will be introducing (at least) one new mutant via its still-untitled, don’t-call-it-X-Men Fox pilot.

RelatedPilot Season ’17: Scoop on the (Possible) New Shows, Who’s In Them

Sean Teale (Reign, Incorporated) has joined the drama as a never-before-seen mutant named Marcos Diaz (aka Eclipse), our sister site Deadline reports. A rebellious loner by nature, Eclipse has the power to “absorb and manipulate photons.”

The pilot, from writer Matt Nix (Burn Notice) and director Bryan Singer (the X-Men films), follows two non-mutant parents who learn that their children possess mutant abilities; the discovery leads them to join up with...

Exclusive: Sean Teale, star of the Syfy series Incorporated, has been cast in a lead role opposite Stephen Moyer in Fox's Marvel action-adventure pilot. Written by Matt Nix and directed by Bryan Singer, the pilot focuses on two ordinary parents — the dad played by Moyer — who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Teale will…...

Incorporated was quietly canceled on Syfy today.

The series about a future run by corporations giving them unlimited power and a man from a poor background (Sean Teale) who infiltrated their world in an attempt to save his childhood love.

Incorporated was pulling in about 500k viewers per week, well below series such as The Magicians and The Expanse.

Syfy has other series on tap, including Krypton and The Haunted and recently ordered two more seasons of its incredible horror anthology series Channel Zero.

If you've been waiting for CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery, prepare to wait a bit longer.

CBS Chief Les Moonves was at a business conference when he shared the news the upcoming Star Trek series would fly "sometime late summer early fall...probably."

Of course, it's not the first time we've been given a timeline for the new series, but perhaps this will the winner.

Welcome to the Red Zone. The Incorporated TV show has been cancelled by Syfy after just one season. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck executive produced the futuristic Syfy drama. According to Deadline, Dennis Haysbert has already booked a new role in the Reverie TV series pilot for NBC.The sci-fi series takes place in the year 2074, in a world where corporations have unlimited power. and the haves and the have-nots live in two starkly different environments. Incorporated centers on Ben Larson (Sean Teale), a young executive for Spiga Biotech which is the world’s largest corporation. The rest of the Syfy cast includes Allison Miller, Eddie Ramos, Haysbert, David Hewlett, Ian Tracey, and Julia Ormond.Read More…...

Dennis Haysbert’s casting in the NBC pilot Reverie was, indeed, a bad sign for Syfy’s Incorporated.

The futuristic thriller, starring Haysbert and Sean Teale, has been cancelled after one season, our sister site Deadline reports.

RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?

The drama — which hails from executive producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck — wrapped its ten-episode freshman run on Jan. 25.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Emmy winner Jeremy Piven (Entourage) will star in the CBS drama pilot Wisdom of the Crowd as a tech...

Syfy has canceled Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s “Incorporated” after just one season, TheWrap has confirmed. “Incorporated” was created by David & Alex Pastor, and hailed from Damon and Affleck’s Pearl Street Films, CBS TV Studios and Universal Cable Productions. Ted Humphrey was executive producer and showrunner on the futuristic drama. Damon, Affleck and their Pearl Street partner Jennifer Todd also earned executive producer credits. The show starred Sean Teale, Allison Miller, Eddie Ramos, Julia Ormond and Dennis Haysbert, among others. Also Read: All 26 TV Shows That Have Been Renewed or Canceled This Season (Updating Photos) “Incorporated” followed Ben Larson...

Exclusive: Syfy has opted not to renew freshman drama series Incorporated for a second season. The futuristic thriller, executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, ended its freshman run January 25. One of the show’s regular cast members, Dennis Haysbert, already booked a new series project, signing on as the male lead of drama pilot Reverie for Syfy sibling NBC. Incorporated was a modest ratings performer, ranking below most other Syfy series such as flagship The Ma…...

Finally, finally, finally a Laura centric episode! And it was well worth the wait.

It took slogging through a morass of tedium, but on Incorporated Season 1 Episode 6 we finally got to see what happened to Laura eight years ago, and how it started her downward spiral of self destruction.

I've made it very clear that the only character that means a damn to me on this show is Laura. She has a heart, a soul, and actual Feelings, which is very hard to come by in this world.

The fact that she is being used by Ben is heartbreaking, because for some reason she really loves that louse.

Ben is such a stone cold schemer, and to use another human being the way he uses Laura is reprehensible. 

I mean, using birth control behind Laura's back, when you know that all she wants in the whole world is a baby?...

Even in the future, you have to pay the cost to be the boss.

That's the gist of Incorporated Season 1 Episode 4, which is, unfortunately, another snore-fest (Sigh).

Every character faces a choice, either in flashbacks or present day, and must decide if they are willing to pay the price to get what they want.

The problem, just like in all the previous episodes, is that I just don't care about the characters enough to give a damn about what decisions they make.

The brave new world angle about baby gestators and choosing every genetic trait of your child is supposed to be chilling I guess, but everyone on the show acts like they are choosing an emoji to insert into an Im, not all aspects of a human being.

We are not having a clone of me. Don't you want the baby to look like you at all?

Laura Permalink:...

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

We're only up to Incorporated Season 1 Episode 2, and watching it is already a slog.

The same problems that plagued Incorporated Season 1 Episode 1 are abundant in this episode, as well.

Flat, unlikable characters, a plot that has a "been there, done that" feel and just an overall paint-by-numbers world.

The attempt at a back story for Ben/Aaron was very ordinary, only reinforcing what we already know: that he knew his love Elena from his Red Zone days.

The thing about this show is that they drop in some little nuggets that are reasonably clever, such as lines like this:

What's going on downstairs is just the tip of the iceberg. Do you know that expression? It's from when I was a kid.

Elizabeth Permalink: What's going on downstairs is just the tip of the iceberg. Do you know that expression? It's... Added: December 07, 2016

And the "blink and you miss" things,...

Matt Damon is once again addressing the whitewashing controversy surrounding his upcoming film “The Great Wall.”

Directed by Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou, the fantasy-action film stars Damon as a mercenary warrior who leads an army of elite warriors to confront a wave of marauding beasts who besiege the Great Wall of China.

After the teaser debuted over the summer, the project was slammed with whitewashing accusations because the movie starred a white American actor. “Fresh Off the Boat” actress Constance Wu even tweeted, “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that only a white man can save the world.”

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Now ahead of the feature’s debut overseas, Damon told The Associated Press that he takes the whole idea of whitewashing “very seriously,” explaining that he defines whitewashing as white actors putting on makeup...

On the Incorporated TV series, the main character goes undercover for a secret mission. is hoping that their new TV show won't remain a secret and will attract big ratings. Will Incorporated be renewed for a second season or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned.The Incorporated TV show takes place in the year 2074, in a world where corporations have unlimited power. The world is in chaos thanks to climate change and other crises. As governments fell, powerful corporations took control. As a result, the haves and the have-nots find themselves living in two very different environments -- the Green and Red Zones. The story centers on Ben Larson (Sean Teale), a young executive for Spiga Biotech which is the world’s largest corporation. However, he is not who he appears to be. The rest of the cast includes Allison Miller, Eddie Ramos, Dennis Haysbert, David...

An upcoming episode of Syfy’s future-set drama “Incorporated” begins with this: a carbon copy of the sort of starving children ads that Sally Struthers used to host in the 1990s. There’s a wistful little boy staring at the camera as he strokes his battered stuffed toy and a pleading, pitying narrator explaining how he and other children like him go days without food or clean water.

Here’s the twist: The little boy’s name is Johnny, and the narrator is speaking Chinese. For 100 yuan a day, generous Chinese souls can help the children of a broken America in the year 2073. Watching that cold open at this exact moment in our history is science fiction that might be a little too real. You can forget about “The Walking Dead” or “The Exorcist”: “Incorporated” may be the scariest show on television.

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: In a world where evil corporations rule a future dystopian Earth, an ordinary man fights to find the one he loves against insurmountable odds!

Yeah, sounds Very familiar. That basically sums up Incorporated Season 1 Episode 1, and that's not a good thing.

The "Evil Corporation" trope is tired and worn out, but it keeps cropping up like a bad penny. From Rollerball, Soylent Green, Robocop, the Alien films, Elysium, and Snowpiercer, the list goes on and on.

Sci fi has always been, at it's best, a drastic take on our societal fears, going all the way back to the 1950's nuke mutated bug movies to today's fear of technology shows like Black Mirror.

The devil, as they say, is in the details. It's an old show pony, but if the story is well done, then we can at least enjoy a new take on the same old,...

Debuting on November 30 on Syfy, Incorporated paints a familiar picture of a dystopian future where big business controls almost everything, the world is ravaged, and the line between the haves and the have-nots is stark and harsh. Despite a strong performance from Dennis Haysbert as a security heavy for multi-national Spiga Biotech and the appearance of Julia Ormond as the company boss, the series created by David and Alex Pastor and executive produced by Ben Affleck…...

Three episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

It’s somewhere around the explanation of Incorporated‘s bifurcated future world, wherein unemployed urchins rule the slums and sleek worker bees look down their noses from glossy high-rises, that Syfy’s new show peaks creatively. The vision echoes the futures of plenty of other sci-fi works (weirdly, I was reminded of the Ethan Hawke, us-vs-them vampire flick Daybreakers), but it has undeniably interesting ideas of its own.

Unfortunately, that exact moment where the show peaks creatively is in an opening credits scroll; the subsequent story navigating us through Incorporated‘s potentially bountiful near-future is sluggish and, as far as duplicitous business thrillers go, inert. Incorporated falls further along the high-quality end of the Syfy spectrum than, say, Aftermath or Hunters, but it’s far short of the network’s current best: The Expanse and The Magicians. An interesting world worth getting lost...

Don’t expect to see flying cars or lots of lasers on “Incorporated.”

Instead, Syfy’s latest futuristic series set in 2074 features very accessible technology, such as self-driving cars and wearable tech, that only appear a step or two beyond what we have today. That familiarity makes “Incorporated’s” grimmer aspects of the future seem all too plausible. It’s a world where natural food resources and clean water are dwindling and have created fierce competition.

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Alex Pastor, who created the series with his brother David, told Indiewire, “I think that ecological and climate change and the degradation of the environment is going to cause that certain things that now we take for granted, things that right now we consider plentiful, are not going to be anymore. That’s what food and clean water comes to be. Once you push people...

“Incorporated” doesn’t officially premiere for another 10 days, but thanks to the wonders of the the internet, the first episode of Syfy’s newest original series is available to watch now. And for those of you worried about keeping everything on the up and up, fret not — SyFy itself has made the pilot free to view. You can do so here.

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Counting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon among its executive producers, the show takes place in a dystopian 2074 ravaged by the effects of climate change. (If, at this point, you’re wondering where the fictional aspect of “Incorporated” kicks in, you’re hardly alone.) Alex and David Pastor wrote and directed “Vertical Mobility,” which introduces us to this world.

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Watch the series premiere of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Incorporated before it airs on TV. SyFy has posted the first episode on YouTube. Set in a future where companies have seemingly unlimited power, the show centers around Ben Larson, a young executive who risks everything to infiltrate the all-controlling corporate world and save the […]

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